Junior Developer Jobs in Kent

Junior Developer
South East > Kent

The median Junior Developer salary in Kent is £30,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 101 101
Rank change year-on-year +47 0 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Developer 19 6 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 2.43% 0.40% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.41% 0.43% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17 6 1
10th Percentile £24,000 - -
25th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £28,250 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -11.29%
75th Percentile £32,750 £29,500 £28,750
90th Percentile £44,500 £33,500 -
South East median annual salary £30,000 £32,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% -4.41% +4.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kent. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Kent with a recognized job title 557 1,387 985
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 71.32% 92.84% 85.73%
Number of salaries quoted 322 1,032 549
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,250 £27,400
25th Percentile £30,313 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £58,563 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Junior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings that featured Junior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Junior Developer in Kent

Junior Developer
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Junior Developer in Kent.

Salary trend for Junior Developer in Kent

Junior Developer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Developer in Kent over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Junior Developer in Kent

Junior Developer
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Developer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 6 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Maidstone - 7 £30,000 -
Snodland - 7 £32,500 -
Tunbridge Wells +11 3 £26,000 -5.45%
Junior Developer
South East

Junior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Junior Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Kent region featuring Junior Developer in the job title.

1 17 (89.47%) HTML
1 17 (89.47%) JavaScript
1 17 (89.47%) PHP
1 17 (89.47%) CSS
2 14 (73.68%) MySQL
3 8 (42.11%) E-Commerce
3 8 (42.11%) CakePHP
3 8 (42.11%) Laravel
3 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (36.84%) Git
5 6 (31.58%) RESTful
5 6 (31.58%) Retail
5 6 (31.58%) MVC
5 6 (31.58%) LAMP
5 6 (31.58%) Web Services
5 6 (31.58%) OOP
6 3 (15.79%) C
6 3 (15.79%) C#
6 3 (15.79%) Twitter
6 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
7 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
7 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
8 1 (5.26%) Jest
8 1 (5.26%) Serverless
8 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (5.26%) Decision-Making
8 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Development
8 1 (5.26%) Containerisation
8 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK

Junior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (5.26%) GitHub
1 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
1 1 (5.26%) SaaS
1 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (73.68%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Git
General
1 6 (31.58%) Retail
2 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (89.47%) CSS
1 17 (89.47%) HTML
2 8 (42.11%) CakePHP
2 8 (42.11%) Laravel
3 6 (31.58%) LAMP
3 6 (31.58%) RESTful
3 6 (31.58%) Web Services
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
4 1 (5.26%) Jest
4 1 (5.26%) Next.js
4 1 (5.26%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) E-Commerce
1 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (31.58%) MVC
2 6 (31.58%) OOP
3 3 (15.79%) Clean Code
4 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
5 1 (5.26%) Agile
5 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.26%) Containerisation
5 1 (5.26%) Data Modelling
5 1 (5.26%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (5.26%) Decision-Making
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (5.26%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) JavaScript
1 17 (89.47%) PHP
2 3 (15.79%) C
2 3 (15.79%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Twitter